finding files that were created before a certain date

basher400 · 06-16-2009, 01:47 AM

Hi

I need to find files with certain names that were uploaded to the server from a certain date.

this is what I tried:

Code:

touch -d "18 may 2009 17:54:19" date_marker
find /home/mash -iregex '.*[^a-z0-9 \_\.\/\-].*'  -cnewer date_marker -ls

it seems to list files that were created before that date I specified.

I also tried:

Code:

find /home/mash -iregex '.*[^a-z0-9 \_\.\/\-].*' -mtime -30 -ls

and

Code:

find /home/mash -iregex '.*[^a-z0-9 \_\.\/\-].*' -ctime -30 -ls

but the above seems to list files that were modified or changed in the that period of time and not just the created ones.

I need only NEW files because that is how I know the date they were uploaded.

suggestions ?

BeacoN · 06-16-2009, 02:44 AM

Hey Basher,
the -cnewer flag seemed to work fine on Debian 5.0 I'm using, however I didn't use the iregex or ls flags.
Maybe try testing it without those flags just to be sure the -cnewer command is working right first?

JulianTosh · 06-16-2009, 02:46 AM

Does this help any?

Code:

[admiral@glitch test]$ find . ! -newer marker -ls
753675    4 -rw-rw-r--   1 admiral    admiral           0 Jun 15  2006 ./marker
753821    4 -rw-rw-r--   1 admiral    admiral           0 Jun  1  2006 ./first
[admiral@glitch test]$ find . -newer marker -ls
753674    8 drwxrwxr-x   2 admiral    admiral        4096 Jun 16 00:04 .
753920    4 -rw-rw-r--   1 admiral    admiral           0 Jun 30  2006 ./last